# People v. Gacy

> Illinois Supreme Court · June 6, 1984 · 103 Ill. 2d 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9743227

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JOHN WAYNE GACY, Appellant
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** June 6, 1984
- **Citations:** 103 Ill. 2d 1; 82 Ill. Dec. 391; 468 N.E.2d 1171; 1984 Ill. LEXIS 325
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Simon
- **Judges:** Goldenhersh, Simon
- **Cited by:** 114 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that questions on certain “basic guarantees” are “essential” and “vital”

## Opinion text

JUSTICE SIMON, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I agree that the convictions of murder should be affirmed in this case. However, for the reasons set forth in my separate opinions in People v. Lewis (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 129, 179 (Simon, J., dissenting), and in People v. Silagy (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 147, 184 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), I believe that the Illinois death penalty statute is unconstitutional and that the death sentence should be vacated.

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